6 sentences with 'trend'
Example sentences and phrases with the word trend and other words derived from it.
• « The upward trend in crime began to reverse when a hardened hoodlum on parole killed policeman Jimmy Irby. »
• « Tiberius Gracchus, among others, was concerned that the common, free, farm-owning Roman would become extinct if the current trend of wealthy landowners taking over farms and replacing farmers with slaves continued. Without these commoners, Rome's armies would be drastically weakened. »
• « As noted, there were also simple cases of conversions to Christianity forced by military force; as described below, the Frankish king Charlemagne exemplified this trend. »
• « Although in the end these uprisings were generally put down in a bloody manner, the general trend was that workers had to be paid more; their labour was simply more valuable. »
• « Some countries stubbornly resisted this trend - France refused women's suffrage altogether until after the period of Nazi occupation in the Second World War - but there is no doubt that, overall, the cause of women's suffrage was helped enormously by women's patriotic service during the First World War. »
• « For example, even as military spending soared for the US and the Soviet Union, it fell to less than 10% of UK GDP in the early 1960s and declined steadily from there in the years that followed. Also, with the long-term trend of decolonisation, there was no longer a need for large imperial armies to control the colonies. »